The Strait Gate
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- It was just a couple of years ago when President Nelson in his General Conference address talked about how he had learned an additional meaning to the word Israel and how it meant “let God Prevail”. I love it when we learn additional things about words in the scriptures or when our traditional understanding of words or phrases can be enhanced. This short video is on one such phrase, “the strait gate”
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It’s so great when you hear new or rather deeper interpretations of gospel principles you already know and live by. Further testimony of how rich the gospel is. - Thanks for this timely message. I needed the spiritual refreshment.
Another fantastic video! Thank you!
A personal connotation I have for "strait" is "safe." I picture a minefield, but there is a narrow, marked path that is definitely mine-free. This path may or may not be difficult to traverse, but if I stay on it, I'm safe. When I stray off it, I am in danger.
that was amazing. ❤
Love the insight, thank you.
I’ve thought about this topic a long time now.
Life has a way of growing weeds and becoming strange. A wolf becomes a chihuahua. A garden becomes a briar.
Eternal life therefore must be aware of this danger. We will propagate life for eternity. So a God with the ability to peer down 10,000 generations of time will have opinions on what limits must be placed. Which preferences must be pruned.
To me, that is the straitness of the path. It’s a narrow set of rules that must be followed to keep life from growing out of control into perverse things.
With that said, I think our light of Christ informs us as to what is most important. Baptism and the commandments bring us onto that path. And Christ sets the path, so if he says baptism, then baptize
However, I think it’s equally important to remember that it is not baptism that earns is the prize at the end. Instead, they is simply the first step on a path chosen by Jesus.
Being a good person is part of what saves a person. Baptism is part of what saves a person. Not because being good saves you, or because baptism saves you, but because Jesus Christ saves you.
And he tells you to baptize. But he also tells you to be a good person. Both are required to eventually become like Christ
When you walk with the spirit constantly you know you are on the right path and repenting everyday and being grateful for your blessings is a start in the right direction. We must keep that momentum going and keep growing in Christ instead of the desires of the world. If you are doing this then your heart and mind is easier to change into a better person by the hands of the Lord. Sure we may slip and slide on the way, as long as we are quick to recover our faults. What do you do when you catch a cold or the flu or even break a leg, you don't wait around for weeks and months before you decide to go see a doctor do you? You want to recover and get back to work or you're everyday activity with family or work. When you fall, repent and get going again. Reading the Scriptures with daily prayer is your armor. You would never see a soldier without his armor on in a combat situation, why do you think you can walk around without your armor on everyday when you walk into the world, isn't that dangerous. Walking with the spirit daily is your compass and straightway to our Savior Jesus Christ! All I can say is walking without the spirit and the Holy ghost is a scary thing when you have to walk in darkness without the light of Christ. Everyone has questions about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, if you want the truth the Father and it will be given, that's not too hard to do is it. We ask people every single day of Our Lives questions how to do things. Why is it so hard for us to ask our Father in Heaven questions and what the truth is. Do you want to receive truth and inspiration even more intelligence? If you don't ask you don't receive anything.
This needs to be reflected in our art. I have been working on some illustrations of the iron rod etc showing the true meaning of 'strait'
It only makes sense that the wide gate would be easier to find because it would be larger than the narrow gate. Given that I having been raised in the church having a very strong testimony of the gospel, still feel like finding that narrow gate to be hard. Sins of weakness seems to haunt me from time to time and make it where I don’t feel I have fully repented. If God isn’t extremely merciful I’m afraid I may be finding that wide gate myself. I hope Gods grace is more than forwarding the opportunity to repent in this life alone.😢
This imagery works well with the sheepfold parable, too.
The word "strait" also means "strict". So the "strait" gate is also the one that has a clear behavioural expectation that goes with it. Which it obviously does.
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This was killer🙌🏻
Could you please send me the copy of the picture of the water, and cliffs Such a great description of the pathway and holding on the Iron Rod
That was only missing thing.
So, here's the thing...
When we teach people that they must avoid sin, in turn, it teaches people to avoid repentance. As though having to repent is something to be feared and shunned.
You cannot find repentance without sinning.
That doesn't mean that people should just sin because they want to. But everyone is predisposed to sin. Whether it is sexual or as simple as "hating your brother", or anything in between, it's the path that leads to the place where God wants and needs you to be.
The purpose of sinning is to reach a point where you are ready and willing to stop trying it "your way" and ready to let God Prevail.... or take the wheel as it were.
Once you get there, you will find that you will understand things in a way you never thought possible and realize there is a TON more freedom that comes from repenting than sinning ever had to offer.
In the Book of Mormon we read that there are many ways to sin. So many that they can't be named. So they aren't. But repentance is spoken of everywhere in scripture and not in connection to sin. Sin is the path that leads to repentance. Repentance is NOT the forgiveness of sins. It is the blessing of understanding what just happened and it leaves one with the joy that their past didn't matter to God as much as one may have thought it did. Repentance is the only thing God cares about.
you should make a video about the significance and symbolism of Noah being Gabriel. It’s something that I know has symbolism involved, but I have no clue what it is
Very nearly a childbirth metaphor. The only way to continuing life and growth is through a narrow passage.
Hey, I thought the original word "straight" was changed to "strait" by the printer. I looked this "strait" "straight" question up myself several days ago while delving deeper. I found that the 1828 Webster's dictionary shows strait & straight used interchangeably in many case.
Even so, in Spanish it uses "estrecho y angosto" as strait and narrow. Estrecho is not straight, or it would have been "recto" or "derecho."
@@ToaRahkshi That's interesting. The English to Spanish translators stayed with the printer's change.
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Thank U for the video! I think that along with marginalizing Baptism, we as members can marginalize receiving the actual Gift of the Holy Ghost. It isn’t simply receiving the laying on of hands. Perhaps a topic for another video???👍
See “Receive the Holy Ghost”, Oct 2010 -Elder Bednar.
Excellent. Oh, just FYI your audio mic is picking up or adding a constant humm. Sounds like a fish tank bubbler motor in the background.
The word straight from the original Greek word euthus in scripture means; without delay; acting immediately, straightway, taking a direct path from God's point A to God's point B which avoids unnecessary delays.
The word gate from the original Greek word pule is a feminine noun - a large door; an entrance-gate to a city or fortress; a door-gate. ("a door-gate") typically refers to the exit people go out, i.e. focusing on what proceeds out of it. Gates in antiquity generally represent authority/power.
Our body is the feminine and God's Elect is the bride of Christ. We are the Gate that God disciplines into righteousness "straight" like scripture says "to become in the likeness of Christ" so we are purified into eternal life.
Narrow way in the original Greek words explains this differently but also let's us know we have to (with no choice because it's of God's Will) endure his ways of discipline to the very end.
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